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Robinson W. Fulweiler

Robinson W. Fulweiler

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
7473
World Ranking
7647
National Ranking
2727

Robinson W. Fulweiler publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robinson W. Fulweiler sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 134 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Robinson W. Fulweiler D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robinson W. Fulweiler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robinson W. Fulweiler is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of Fulweiler's research encompass marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, isotope analysis in ecology, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Frequent publication venues where Fulweiler's research appears include Marine Ecology Progress Series, Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Science, Limnology and Oceanography Methods, and Estuaries and Coasts.

Notable recent papers with their year and publication venue include:

  • Rebuilding marine life, 2020, Nature
  • Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems, 2022, Science
  • A synthesis of methane emissions from shallow vegetated coastal ecosystems, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions Complicate Coastal Blue Carbon Assessments, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science, 2021, PLoS Biology

Fulweiler's frequent co-authors include Nicholas E. Ray, Alia Al-Haj, Amy Marcarelli, J. Thad Scott, and Peter M. Groffman.

They have contributed a book titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

In 2012, Fulweiler was awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Rebuilding marine life

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agusti;Edward Barbier;Gregory L. Britten

  • Challenges to incorporating spatially and temporally explicit phenomena (hotspots and hot moments) in denitrification models

    Peter M. Groffman;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Robinson W. Fulweiler;Arthur J. Gold

  • Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems

    Unknown

  • A synthesis of methane emissions from shallow vegetated coastal ecosystems

    Alia N. Al‐Haj;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Reversal of the net dinitrogen gas flux in coastal marine sediments

    R. W. Fulweiler;S. W. Nixon;B. A. Buckley;S. L. Granger

  • The impact of changing climate on phenology, productivity, and benthic–pelagic coupling in Narragansett Bay

    Scott W. Nixon;Robinson W. Fulweiler;Betty A. Buckley;Stephen L. Granger

  • Global carbon cycling on a heterogeneous seafloor

    Paul V.R. Snelgrove;Karline Soetaert;Martin Solan;Simon Thrush

  • Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions Complicate Coastal Blue Carbon Assessments

    Judith A. Rosentreter;Judith A. Rosentreter;Alia N. Al-Haj;Robinson W. Fulweiler;Phillip Williamson

  • Toward the Geoscience Paper of the Future: Best practices for documenting and sharing research from data to software to provenance

    Yolanda Gil;Cédric H. David;Ibrahim Demir;Bakinam T. Essawy

  • Ecological control of nitrite in the upper ocean

    Emily J. Zakem;Emily J. Zakem;Alia Al-Haj;Matthew J. Church;Gert L. van Dijken

  • Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science.

    Sarah W. Davies;Hollie M. Putnam;Tracy Ainsworth;Julia K. Baum

  • Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments

    Katja Fennel;Damian Brady;Dominic DiToro;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • The terrestrial silica pump.

    Joanna C. Carey;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Evidence and a conceptual model for the co-occurrence of nitrogen fixation and denitrification in heterotrophic marine sediments

    R. W. Fulweiler;S. M. Brown;S. W. Nixon;B. D. Jenkins

  • Human activities directly alter watershed dissolved silica fluxes

    J. C. Carey;R. W. Fulweiler

  • Nitrogen and Phosphorus Inputs to Narragansett Bay: Past, Present, and Future

    Scott W. Nixon;Betty A. Buckley;Stephen L. Granger;Lora A. Harris

  • Terrestrial vegetation and the seasonal cycle of dissolved silica in a southern New England coastal river

    Robinson W. Fulweiler;Scott W. Nixon

  • Directly Measured Denitrification Reveals Oyster Aquaculture and Restored Oyster Reefs Remove Nitrogen at Comparable High Rates

    Austin T. Humphries;Suzanne G. Ayvazian;Joanna C. Carey;Boze T. Hancock

  • A critical review of the 15 N 2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems

    Angelicque E. White;Julie Granger;Corday Selden;Mary R. Gradoville

  • Mississippi River Flood of 2008: Observations of a Large Freshwater Diversion on Physical, Chemical, and Biological Characteristics of a Shallow Estuarine Lake

    J. R. White;R. W. Fulweiler;C. Y. Li;S. Bargu

  • Human appropriation of biogenic silicon – the increasing role of agriculture

    Joanna C. Carey;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Ecological control of nitrite in the upper ocean

    Alia Al-Haj;Matthew J. Church;Gert L. van Dijken;Sarah Q. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott W. Nixon
Scott W. Nixon University of Rhode Island
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Jean-Pierre Gattuso Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sergio Fagherazzi
Sergio Fagherazzi Boston University
Gert L. van Dijken
Gert L. van Dijken Stanford University
Mark J. McCarthy
Mark J. McCarthy Wright State University
Matthew M. Mills
Matthew M. Mills Stanford University
Matthew J. Church
Matthew J. Church University of Montana

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